Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska

Managing the Body

Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain 1880-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

Managing the Body explores the emergence of modern male and female bodies within the context of debates about racial fitness and active citizenship in Britain from the 1880s until 1939.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780199280520
• ISBN-10: 0199280525
• Artikelnr.: 30977197

Autorenporträt

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska is a Professor of Modern British History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is author of Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 (OUP, 2000), winner of the 2001 British Council Prize, North American Conference on British Studies. Her other publications include an edited collection, Women in Twentieth Century Britain (Pearson Education, 2001), '"The Culture of the Abdomen": Obesity and Reducing in Britain, c.1900-1939', Journal of British Studies (2005), and 'Building a British Superman: Physical Culture in Interwar Britain', Journal of Contemporary History (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1880s - 1914
1: Modern Urban Lifestyles, Degeneration, and the Male Body
2: The Fit Male Body, Nation, and Empire
3: The Modern Woman as Race Mother
1918 - 1939
4: Building an A 1 Nation: Health and Life Reform in the 1920s
5: Reconstructing the Male Body
6: The Modern Female Body as a Mass Phenomenon
7: National Fitness in the 1930s
Conclusion
Bibliography